From Churchill to Corbyn: the 40 most brutal British political insults

Andrew Faulds, the former Labour MP and front-bench arts spokesman, who died in 2000 aged 77, achieved early renown as an actor, in the role of Jet Morgan in the 1950s radio nailbiter Journey into Space. It was when equal fame on the stage, screen and television had evaded Faulds (above right with Patrick McGoohan in Danger Man) that he went into politics, winning a seat on the Labour benches in 1966. Although a genial man in private, in the course of the next 30 years he earned a reputation as among the most abusive members of the Commons including calling Shadow Foreign Secretary John Davies a "fat-arsed twit".